As a literature student at the University of Delhi, one of the first lessons I learned was about the politics of representation. As she read through the roughly 300 pages of a well-liked postcolonial book, my professor smiled at us and said, "As aspiring literary critics, you all must ask yourself one question when you look at a work. Who dies in the end? Why do they have to die? The standard response to all of your inquiries is that. My professor's words, though only a little portion of a conversation from three summers ago, have stuck with me to this day. And why wouldn't they, given that they fundamentally altered the way I was going to interpret any future texts in many ways?

I was equally delighted and bafflingly sad upon watching the first season conclusion of Made in Heaven. On the one hand, Tara and Adil's (Shobhita Dhulipala and Jim Sarbh) marriage had unquestionably reached its breaking point, or point of no return. This had also happened shortly after Tara's major discovery; as viewers, we were now certain that it was not simply Tara's ambition to move up the social scale that had driven this show throughout, but also the extreme lengths she would go to in order to accomplish her goal. 

However, the season finale was infused with an unheard-before sense of unbridled delight despite the besieged workplace space, the undetermined outcome of the marriage, and the bittersweet separation of childhood sweethearts Nawab (Vikrant Massey) and Karan (Arjun Mathur). Because the scene in which Tara's jewelry is stolen and the final line, "We'll survive," make you realize that despite the difficulties, everything will finally be okay in the neighborhood. These two will live and come back in a new season.